Gen. William Shelton said the White House tried to pressure him to change his testimony to make it more favorable to Lightsquared, a company tied to Democratic donor Phil Falcone. LightSquared planned to offer wholesale national mobile LTE broadband WiFi for companies such as VoX Communications among others. And the White House was pressuring generals in the Air Force to give favorable testimony on the company.

Today, LightSquared filed for Chapter 11.

LightSquared, the troubled wireless communications venture backed by hedge-fund manager Philip Falcone, today filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code. The filing was made in Federal court in lower Manhattan.

The filing was not a big surprise. The New York Times notes that bondholders had given LightSquared a deadline of 5 p.m. Monday to come to an agreement about restructuring the company’s debt.

This administration has a very bad record of ignoring the opinion of their own technical experts. They’ve given us government-by-waiver, and it hasn’t worked well. Government-by-waiver is a dustbin idea that needs to be returned to that location.

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How could this happen, I thought The Real Good Speaker was behind this?…oh wait, I’m wrong, he’s just a “behind”.

jonnot

Don’t forget that obumbles thought LightSquared was such a great company, he invested $100,000.00 of his own money. It just goes to show that even with the corrupt behind-the-scene machinations of the FCC and the attempts at distorting the Generals’ testimony, the bundler powerhouse still couldn’t get this one off the ground…and the whole thing collapsed around them.

which if it were closely investigated could possibly have been money from excess campaign funds, better known as his slush fund. guy named Edwards is now in deep s**t for the same (but years after the fact).

http://none tommy mc donnell

another example of crony socialism. politicans don’t make good choices when backing businesses, they never have to worry about making a profit. when they are in the red they just raise taxes. this is another example of why we must take our income back from the politicans.

http://biggovernment.com Redneck

The only reason it got scraped because they got caught..Obama helping international crooks like Soros make more billions to be use to destroy USA………

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Yay! Score one for the good guys!

The mere thought of our service men and women in danger from that company’s grab of military bandwidth made me nauseous.

The Department of Health and Human Services last week announced it had awarded a $5.9 million grant to a University of Chicago Medical Center program tied to Michelle Obama and run by Eric Whitaker, one of President Obama’s closest friends.

The Urban Health Initiative, which received the award, was originally based on a smaller program launched during the last decade by Michelle Obama, who was an executive at the University of Chicago Medical Center before she departed to become first lady. The UHI is headed up by Obama basketball and golf buddy Whitaker, who has known the president since Obama’s days in law school and who also vacations with the first family.

Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett also has ties to the UHI. Until resigning to go work at the White House, Jarrett was Chairman of the University of Chicago Medical Center Board of Trustees. And in 2007, a PR firm run by former senior White House adviser and Obama political guru David Axelrod provided provided public relations strategy advice to the UHI, according to the Washington Post.

Why do we bother wasting words about this pack of thieves anymore? Congress is obviously in cahoots with them as I have yet to see any subpeonas issued to anyone of import about ripping off the taxpayers. So, as usual,crime pays and politics is the best game in town.

The left love to scold the rest of us about “sustainability”, yet none of their schemes ever are sustainable, that us unless they have government to give them other people’s money or other special accommodations. Cronyism is just another aspect of living at the expense of others and this case the expense would have also included the severe degradation of our precious GPS system.